Rise and Shine
The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Journey from Near Death to Full Recovery
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- $17.99
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- $17.99
Publisher Description
“When I was thirty-five, my wife and I were both reported dead by the first paramedics to arrive at the scene of a seventy-five-mile-an-hour hit-and-run. My wife Marcy died instantly that day. With brain damage from a massive stroke and my body broken, I wasn’t expected to survive either.”
So begins Rise and Shine, the dramatic story of Simon Lewis and his remarkable recovery from a horrific car accident. Told through the eyes of someone who has “lived through it” and successfully overcome the hurdles of the health insurance maze, Rise and Shine is a first-person account of unexpected tragedy and life-affirming courage, with lessons both medical and spiritual.
Rise and Shine shows how much patients can achieve, beyond the limited horizons of insurance-based diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation, to attain maximum regeneration and rebuild their lives. An inspiring story about what it means to return to life after a near-death experience, Rise and Shine is, essentially, an exploration of the nature of consciousness itself, and an impassioned tale about survival and recovery.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Simon Lewis was a film producer whose life was turned upside down when his car was broadsided and sent careening into a tree. The accident killed his wife instantly and left him severely injured. He entered a coma he wasn't expected to emerge from, but he did, and over the next dozen years he disproved medical professionals and textbooks with a full recovery while also navigating the labyrinthine insurance industry and managing to find his faith. It's difficult not to be moved by Lewis's story, but the narrative is poorly framed. Much of his tale concerns the multitudinous medical procedures and insurance struggles, neither of which possess, or are given, much drama; Lewis is surprisingly placid for a man relating a series of life-threatening procedures and desperate battles with insurance companies. While readers going through their own medical struggles may find Lewis's experience inspiring and informative, the casual reader will wonder where the story is.
